Joe DiMaggio Quotes
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I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And I've always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I've been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, 'I Wanna Be a Nun,' when I was 25.
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Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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I like heels and make-up.
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I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses.
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The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
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I spent a lot of time with President Mandela supporting his efforts in the peace process in Burundi. The thing that impressed me the most was his humility.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
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There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.
